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Metaspark.net has just been redesigned to reflect my friendfeed addiction. If you had been following metaspark as a way to stay current on all things Sparky will likely find this to be a much more complete feed. If you want to see the old version it’s still available at http://sparktography.tumblr.com/.

If you follow metaspark via RSS you will want to move your subscription over to this new feed.

Then go here to enter the latest Gear Live contest. It might only be a 1st gen iPhone on the eve of the 3G launch, but it’s at the right price: free! There are other prizes too, but who cares: orange creamsicle iPhone!

Unfortunately it’s not entirely baked yet, but keep your eye on that domain – once I get a few RSS aggregation, twitter update, and posting date issues sorted out it should be ready to go fully live, and with style no less.

In an effort to bring together the wonderful wide world of Sparky* I’m experimenting with Tumblr as an aggregation service. The hopes of my experimentation is to create a single point of contact for all my personal web content. Currently to get every last drop of Sparky goodness (and who doesn’t want that) visits to my blog, Flickr stream, Facebook profile, and Twitter are necessary. By providing this aggregate source of Sparky – henceforth referred to as Meta-Sparky – a single website can be visited to consume Sparky, Sparky, Sparky, and more Sparky.

Update: Tumblr ended up being close to what I want, but not quite it. Tumblr will only allow short form content and won’t import long format blog posts. I also noticed it copies Flickr photos locally and re-compresses them which adds a slight color cast and loses the tack-sharpness that so much effort goes into on the front end.

Anyone know of a better aggregation service with similar features that I could check out? Leave a note in the comments with a link to it. If I don’t find anything readymade I guess I’ll have to roll up my sleeves and make something.

*wonder, wonderment, and wonderfulness not guaranteed. All Sparky all the time has been known to cause health complications in certain situations. If you experience a Sparky lasting more than 4 hours consult with a physician immediately.

I’m again experimenting with adding my Twitter stream to Futurist Now. People detested the old post style integration so this time I’m trying a live feed view in the sidebar. Leave a comment if you love it or hate it.

I can configure the number of tweets to display – how many do readers find useful? If I just put a single one it shows real-time context without visually overpowering the main content column. On the other hand more gives a better context of what I’m doing, but adds a huge block of text to the sidebar.

OK – this is cool: cooking food with magnets. This new induction range from GE allows you to cook food in cast iron and magnetic stainless steel pots without heating up the surroundings, or even the range itself. I wonder what this kind of magnetic field

The folks at Navizon have created a 3rd party application for the iPhone (jailbreaking required) which using cell phone tower latency and triangulation to approximate your location and pass it to the iPhone Google Maps application. Not quite as accurate a

Lifehacker links to both an article and a great diagram on packing for vacation via the wrapping method. These claim that this makes for more compact packing, less wrinkles, and from the looks of it a great way to protect a laptop or similar equipment in

NYT blog post about the iPhone, it’s cost’s, and the kickbacks Apple is getting from carriers. The point that the iPhone price could drop further is an obvious one, but some of the details are interesting.

The New York Times has long been famous for it’s walled garden of content requiring users to pay to access it. They have finally wised up to the ‘net and will be opening up their content (ad-supported of course) to search engines and the consumer market a

Mozilla is spinning Thunderbird off into MailCo, a $3m startup aimed at making Thunderbird the worlds most powerful open source mail client. Hopefully this move will see Thunderbird upgraded to be more of a competitor to Outlook and other corporate messag

For once I agree with the oft-outspoken Dan Savage – this gay restroom sex sting business is getting out of hand. I’ll be the first to agree that sex in a public restroom is just plain wrong – but a proposition of another man clearly isnt.

Brow beating and chest puffing aside this may mean that CS3 won’t work with Leopard out of the box. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in feeling that I’ll have to wait for this to be addressed prior to upgrading to Leopard – as cool as Apples OS 10.5 looks I